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Books

Arrigo, B. A., and Milovanovic, D. (in press). Revolution in Penology: Rethinking the Society of Captives. (New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield).

Current Journal Publications

Arrigo, B. A. (2008). Crime, justice, and the under-laborer: On the criminology of the shadow and the search for disciplinary legitimacy and identity. Justice Quarterly, 25(3): 439-468.

Arrigo, B.A, and Barrett, L. (2008). Philosophical criminology and complex systems science: Towards a critical theory of justice. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 16(3): 165-184.

Arrigo, B. A. and Bullock, J. L. (in press). The psychological effects of solitary confinement on prisoners in supermax units: Reviewing what we know and recommending what should change. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Bjerregaard, Beth and John Cochran (2008). A Cross-National Test of Institutional Anomie Theory: Do the Strength of Other Social Institutions Mediate or Moderate the Effects of the Economy on the Rate of Crime? Western Criminology Review 9 (1): 31-48.

Bjerregaard, Beth (2008). Gang membership and drug involvement: Untangling the complex relationship Crime and Delinquency, 20 (10): 1-32.

Bjerregaard, Beth and John Cochran (Forthcoming) Want Amid Plenty: Developing and Testing a Cross-National Measure of Anomie, International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

Clodfelter, Tammatha A., Turner, Michael G., Hartman, Jennifer L. & Kuhns, Joseph B. (Forthcoming). Sexual Harassment Victimization During Emerging Adulthood: A Test of Routine Activities and Self Control Theory, Crime and Delinquency

Holt, Thomas J., Blevins, Kristie, R. & Kuhns, Joseph B. (Forthcoming). Examining the Displacement Practices of Johns with Online Data, Journal of Criminal Justice

Johnson, Devon V. & Kuhns, Joseph B. (Forthcoming). Striking Out: Race and Support for Police Use of Force, Justice Quarterly

Kuhns, Joseph B. & Clodfelter, Tammatha A.( Forthcoming). Illicit Drug-related Psychopharmacological Violence: The Current Understanding within a Causal Context; Aggression and Violent Behavior

Laughlin, J. S., Arrigo, B. A., Blevins. K., and Coston, C. (2008). Incarcerated mothers and child visitation: A law, social science, and policy perspective. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 19(2): 215-238.

Lord, V., Kuhns, J. & Friday, P. (Forthcoming). Small city community policing and citizen satisfaction. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.

Lord, V. and Friday, P. (2008). What really influences officer attitudes toward COP?: The importance of context. Police Quarterly, 11(2), 220-238.

Lord, V., Davis, B., Mason, P. (2008). Stance-Shifting in Language Used by Sex Offenders: Five Case Studies. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 14(4), 357-377.

Pardue, A., and Arrigo, B. A. (2008). Power, anger, and sadistic rapists: Towards a differentiated model of offender personality. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 52(4): 378-400.

Book Chapters

Arrigo, B. A., and Williams, C. R. (in press). Existentialism and the criminology of the shadow. In D. Crewe and R. Lippens (eds.), The Uses of Existentialism in Criminology and Criminal Justice. UK: Routledge.

Arrigo, B. A. and Fox, D. (in press). Psychology and law: The crime of policy and the search for justice. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, and S. Austin (Eds.), Critical psychology: An introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Arrigo, B. A. (in press).Transforming corrections through psychological jurisprudence: A preliminary review and critique of theory. In D. Polizzi and M. Braswell (Eds.), Transforming Corrections: Humanistic Approaches to Corrections and Offender Treatment. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Arrigo, B. A. (in press). The role of escalating paraphilic fantasies and behaviorsin sexual, sadistic, and serial violence: A review of theoretical models. In Correctional Service of Canada (Ed.), Sexual Homicide and Paraphilias: The Correctional Service of Canada’s Experts Forum 2007. Ottawa, CA: Correctional Service of Canada.

Arrigo, B. A., Fowler, C., and Blevins, K. (in press). The death row community revisited: Lessons learned from community psychology. In R. Tewksbury and D. A. Dabney (Eds.).Prisons and Jails: A Reader. New York: McGraw Hill

Bjerregaard, Beth (Forthcoming). “Family Violence” Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. Sage Publications.

Bjerregaard, Beth (Forthcoming). “The Case for Life or Death: Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances in Capital Murder Trials” in In Roslyn Muraskin (Ed.) Key Correctional Issues. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Blevins, K., and Arrigo, B. A. Ethics, female offenders and psychiatric illness: How the justice and mental health systems fail and abandon women. In R. Gido and L. Dalley (Eds.), Women’s mental health issues: Across the criminal justice system, (pp. 244-260). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009.

Kavanaugh-Earl, Judith, Cochran, John, Smith, M. Dwayne, Fogel, Sondra J., and Beth Bjerregaard (Forthcoming). “Racial Bias and the Death Penalty” in Lynch, Michael J., Patterson, E. Britt and Kristina K. Childs (eds.) Racial Divide: Racial Bias and Criminal Justice. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

Shipley, S. L., & Arrigo, B. A. Serial killers and serial rapists: A Preliminary comparison of violence typologies. In R. N Kocsis (Ed.), Serial murder and the psychology of violent crimes, (pp. 119-139). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008.

Summers, Diana L. & Kuhns, Joseph B. (2010). The Future of Less-Than-Lethal Weapons in Policing. A chapter in Kuhns, J.B. and Knutsson, J. (Eds.), Police Use of Force: A Global Perspective; Praeger Security International.

Current Funded Projects

2008 Turner, Michael G., Beth Bjerregaard, and Jennifer L. Hartman. Gang of One Program Assessment and Analysis and Mecklenburg County Gang Assessment and Analysis. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/CMPD, subcontract for $100,000.

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Vivian B. Lord, Ph.D.
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